PRINCESS ELIZABETH became queen upon the sudden death of her father, King George VI, on February 6th, 1952. Her actual coronation took place a year later, in June of 1953. This year we celebrate the 60th anniversary

I LOVE Christmas pageants and have been involved with many throughout my life. For seven years in a row, I wrote and directed pageants for a church in north Toronto. Each year as the Bethlehem dust settled on the manger scene

CONSIDER GIVING some of these books this Christmas, either to your own children, grandchildren or godchildren, nieces or nephews, or to the children in your church through their Sunday school or children’s church library.

“AWAY IN A MANGER, no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.” We sing this carol and others because December is the time in the church year when we remember the birth and early life of Jesus. The New Testament doesn’t tell us much beyond those first days and weeks, weeks full of trauma, heartbreak, glory